On October 21, a scam involving the theft of £300,000 worth of products including truckles of Patrick Holden’s Hafod Welsh Cheddar.
Mr. Holden stated that he thought the fraud was “sophisticated” and that the cheese might have been sent to the Middle East or Russia.
Neal’s Yard Dairy stated that it was collaborating with “international authorities” to identify the con artists, and the Met Police is currently conducting an investigation.
Trust for Sustainable Food Patrick Holden, a middle-aged man with gray hair that is thinning, is standing in front of a cow in a field. Supplier of Hafod Cheddar from Sustainable Food Trust According to Patrick Holden, high-quality cheese is a “stealable” good.
Westcombe and Pitchfork are among the high-end, award-winning cheeses that can cost up to £45 per kilogram.
According to Mr. Holden, the scammers pretended to be a French supermarket agent in order to obtain the 22 tonnes of clothbound cheeses from the Southwark-based business without having to pay for them.
In order to disguise their traces, the criminals persuaded Neal’s Yard to send it to another warehouse in or near London. From there, it was picked up by these evildoers and vanished.
“They have already claimed £300,000, these criminals, and if they sell the cheese, they’ll get more again,” added Holden.
